The Episode

An Octagos video podcast series

The Episode

Hear from clinicians and leaders moving cardiac remote monitoring forward. Explore the decisions, ideas, and clinical experience shaping how you deliver care.

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Episode 1

She Runs the Rhythm

Sarah Mitchell, lead device specialist at Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute (KCHRI), shares how her team manages a growing device clinic, prioritizes alerts with AI, and brings patient follow-up directly into the device team’s workflow. Hear how patient education and data helped make the case for staffing and a heart failure monitoring program.

 

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Starting a heart failure program

Making the case for more staff

Getting alerts to the doctor faster

How one device team made the case

Sarah’s device team now triages alerts and calls patients themselves, then sends what matters straight to the physician. They used their own clinic data to make the case for more staff and for a new heart failure program.

“We used it to justify starting our heart failure program.”
Sarah Mitchell, Lead Device Specialist, Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute
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Ideas you can bring back to your clinic

Two-Brain Approach in Octagos: Atlas AI prioritizes by clinical acuity, and a clinician reviews and makes the call

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Clinical judgment and AI

Explore the two-brain approach: AI working alongside clinical expertise. Consider where technology can support your decisions and where human judgment remains essential.

Read About the Two-Brain Approach
Octagos Clinic Review: urgent patients surface first in one worklist across device vendors

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The work behind remote care

Look at the workflows behind alert review, patient connectivity, and clinical follow-up, through conversations with people doing the work.

Read About Alert Burden
Octagos clinic analytics: report menu and device mix at a glance

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Leading care forward

Hear how clinicians and leaders think about innovation, evaluate new approaches, and bring change into cardiac remote monitoring.

Explore Clinic Analytics

Stay in the conversation.Hear the people shaping remote cardiac care.

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Frequently asked questions

What is The Episode?

The Episode is a video interview series from Octagos with clinicians and leaders working in cardiac remote monitoring. Each conversation focuses on clinical practice, leadership and how new approaches find their way into the work you do.

Who is The Episode for?

Device specialists, nurses, electrophysiologists and clinic leaders who run or support a remote monitoring program, and anyone making the case for how their clinic should grow.

How does AI fit into the discussion?

Guests talk about AI alongside the clinical expertise that gives monitoring data meaning. Atlas AI™ prioritizes transmissions by clinical acuity, and in the Two-Brain Approach™ model, every transmission is reviewed by a qualified clinician.

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Can I suggest a guest or a topic?

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